Competent early education teachers can support the development of speech and language in children in a variety of ways, and one way is to use drama education in the educational process. This paper connects drama games and exercises with the development of language and speech in children. The child is an active creator of knowledge who independently discovers most language rules and as such acquires language easily, spontaneously, and with pleasure (Apel and Masterson, 2004). Speech is the basic form of human communication and is most intensively learned in the period from the birth to the seven years of age (Selimović, Karić, 2011). Play, which is a natural medium of expression in childhood, is also a child's inner need that is accompanied by a sense of comfort and satisfaction (Aladrović Slovačak, 2018). Drama games and exercises place children in certain roles and children create new experiences through these roles. Through such experiences, they strengthen their perceptual and communication skills by mimicking and describing their environment, manipulating things under their control, exploring sounds and space, and using a variety movements (Bojović, 2013). Contemporary literature suggests various dramatic activities that include active speech and that encourage the development of speech and language expression. The paper presents meanings of speech and language, drama in education and specific examples of dramatic games and exercises that support speech and language development. For the purposes of writing this paper, I have divided the listed drama games and exercises into four groups according to the general rules of games and exercises and according to the aspects of speech and language development that they encourage. Those groups are: games and exercises intended for storytelling, games and exercises intended for the correct pronunciation, games and exercises with questions and games and exercises in which the prop directs the story.